Progress made during the past half century by the Hebrew language in reconstituting itself as a living tongue was cefebrated by Anglo Jewry during a period set aside as “Hebrew Week.” Sermons at ...

As the name suggests, the Hebrew Bible is written, mostly, in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What language did the ancient Israelites speak? This episode examines the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article attempts an analytical description of the process of "Full Return to Hebrew" in terms of an updated language planning taxonomy.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article explores medieval and early modern Jewish-Christian polemic rooted in the specific properties of the Hebrew and Latin languages ...

All cultures have a tendency to make their building blocks into part of a collective myth, oversimplifying them in textbooks and in the collective consciousness of their members. We Jews are hardly ...

Each summer, tens of thousands of American Jews attend residential camps, where they may see Hebrew signs, sing and dance to Hebrew songs, and hear a camp-specific hybrid language register called Camp ...

Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal ...